Definition of Toy

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Definition of Toy

Toy

A plaything for children; a bawble.

A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle.

A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.

Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime.

An old story; a silly tale.

A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch.

To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.

To treat foolishly.

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Toy Quotations

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?
Steven Wright

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
Ambrose Bierce

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Victor Hugo

I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.
Jon Stewart

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.
Emma Goldman

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.
Lewis Mumford

Sports is the toy department of human life.
Howard Cosell

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"
George Will

I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.
Dennis Rodman

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Tom Robbins

Toy Translations

toy in Dutch is speelbal, stuk speelgoed, speeltuig
toy in French is joujou, jouet
toy in German is Spielzeug
toy in Portuguese is brinquedo
toy in Spanish is juguete, trebejo
toy in Swedish is leksak

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